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Nahuel Molina

Argentina · the desk

Defence, Argentina

Club football at Club Atlético de Madrid.

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

  • age

    27

    sourced with the squad

  • position

    Defence

    Argentina

  • club

    Club Atlético de Madrid

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1828

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #113

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    1710′

    31 appearances

  • transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers

    15.00

    96th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
Argentina · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Club Atlético de Madridfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board

1949 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1944 full roster Elo (5 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

at or near his peak, no projected upside from age

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Argentina's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1917
age curve at 27 (defences' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
+0
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+32
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1949
form: national-team results, 31 appearances1710 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-5
full roster Elo · with results
1944

Where the +32 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured
15.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
96th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(95.8th) = 46 × 1.72 × 0.4 (position weight) = +32

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-22. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

  • standing

    #113 of 1424 on our board, top 10% of everyone we rate.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€9.8m€38m €19m

Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.

The workingopenclose
reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill
€8m
club tier 1828the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×3.13
ageage 27, in the fee-peak window (24–27)
×1.00
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.58
individual skillmeasured 92th percentile of peers
×1.43
our estimate
€19m

fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.

The fee record · sourced

The market’s last public word: €20m (2022-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €19m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

  • 2022-07-28Udinese Atletico Madrid€20m
  • 2020-09-15Boca Juniors Udinesefree
  • 2020-01-01Rosario Central Boca Juniorsundisclosed
  • 2019-01-26Boca Juniors Rosario Centralloan

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Argentina’s record

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  • v Algeria3–0Called it

The newsroom’s calls on Argentina. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.

Squad · sourced